Motion Studies are a series of short films studying the effects and implications of movement in controlled environments. These short films serve as practical illustrations of basic concepts in physics: e.g., fractal motion, gravity, resistance, momentum, collisions, circular and rotational motion, dissipative patterns, thermodynamics etc al. These short essays develop viable solutions to the visualization of physical phenomena ranging from the microscopic to the macrocosmic.
MOTION STUDIES
an ongoing series of experiments
Screenings
Sundance, Rotterdam, Nantucket, Edinburgh, Leeds, Raindance, Hamptons, Maryland, Milano, Mar del Plata, Cinevegas and others…
A loosely connected series these short films (micro-shorts) run typically from two to five minutes and use iconic imagery and a dry, authoritative ‘scientific’ tone to create darkly absurdist vignettes on themes of motion.
#97: Inertia is a very short film charting the absolute distance, which a man can run at full charge while wearing a complete suit of armor.
#3: Gravity was shot on a quiet fall afternoon and provides empirical evidence of the instantaneous propagation of gravity and our world's drag on foreign bodies. Set against the tragic transmissions of Soviet cosmonauts, it's a short study of humanity's persistent self-sacrifice for the sake of scientific progress.
#11. Heat depicts a man on a snowy farm burning a resuscitation doll.
#43. Perpetumm Mobile investigates the subjective experience of time and a woman waiting for her wash at the Laundromat.
#13. The Wax Supper depicts a man reaching for the wax hand of Christ in a tableau of DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’.
